PAHIATUA DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5358, 16 February 1916, Page 5

PAHIATUA DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL.

SHE SECONDARY DEPARTMENT A. CREDITABLE RECORD. In the recent Senior National Bcholarship and Public Service Examinations, the secondary department of the Pahiatua District High School 'distinguished itself. A record number of pupils were entered, seven out of nine passing, which is a very excellent result. It is all the more creditable when it is remembered that one High School in the Wairarapa entered five pupils and they all failed. With the exception of the Masterton High School, which has twice as many pupils and consequently a bigger staff, the Pahiatua pupils have beaten ■the other Secondary District High Schools. The results must be very gratifying tc the teacher (Miss M. Reese, secondary mistress) and Mr J. StUY.yjison, who instructed the succSjstul pupils in agricultural and physical science. At the examinations Blanche May qualified for the Senior National Scholarship and obtained a senior free place: Amv Westlake and B< *atrlce Holmwood passed the intermediate examination, thus gaining a senior free place; Lewis Barnes. (Veil Brown, James McCardle and John Ruskell all passed, the Public Service examination, gaining senior free places. In the case of Cecil Brown, he was a first year pupal, and as such the first from the Pahiatua school, at any rate, to puss the Public Service examination.